So, how is blockchain being used to solve problems in healthcare? What are the benefits and pitfalls of applying blockchain to healthcare?

This is a list and description of white papers that investigate the relationship between blockchain technology and its use in health IT and/or health-related research from the cryptography and underlying fundamentals of blockchain technology, to recommendations for blockchain implementation.

We wanted to deliver the latest development from the very new and exciting digital health technology: Blockchain. We sat down with David Shorthouse from Guardtime, and IMT’s Blockchain Thought Leader, to discuss their current work in healthcare and how they are pioneering the use of this technology to secure EHRs on a large scale: 1M records.